tears
Example Sentences
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Boo gives me a forlorn wave, tears running down her cheeks.
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This type of explosion occurs when a massive star tears itself apart after releasing large amounts of helium-rich material shortly before it dies.
From Science Daily
After washing "everything" she owned, Sasha ended up going back to her GP feeling helpless and in "floods of tears", after which she was prescribed an oral treatment that finally resolved the condition.
From BBC
Next to me, Meadowlark tears her biscuit into two pieces and doesn’t say anything.
From Literature
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Then he breaks into a song, borrowed from a psalm, a tune so sad tears come to all of our eyes.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.